Martin Scholl wrote: > Chris Anderson wrote: >> On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 7:56 PM, Paul Davis <paul.joseph.da...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> Martin, >>> >>> Very cool ideas. We've been discussing erlang plugins. The >>> conversation has generally gotten as far as, "erlang plugins... yeah >>> we should have those." >> I agree this is cool, but I think it would be healthier for the >> project to wait until we release a rock-solid 1.0. >> >> There are some incredibly non-obvious things happening inside, and a >> big disruption right now wouldn't necessarily keep them all in >> balance. Once we've met 1.0, we'll have a solid basis for comparison, >> of any alternate implementations. >> >> Then, let the fun begin. :) >> >> Martin, I'd very much like to hear more about the sorts of indexers >> you'd build. Sounds exciting. > I'd like to experiment with Merkle trees, because these could turn out > to be a good foundation for several use-cases: > - index/tree-synchronization: replication is trivial with merkle trees, > only changed parts of the tree get replicated in a secure manner. > - secure document storage: modified documents (disc corruption, sw > failure or even the "bad cracker"-case) The important information is missing here: `-> "external modifications to documents get detected". Why can this be important? To use CouchDB for compliance or archiving tasks.
Martin
